​BILL ANNOUNCES:Straydog Radio Show covering the events of Monday, July 24, 2017. Bill and Juana here with the Monday report. Juana, what happened?

JUANA:We have so many new people working here now and it’s going to be hard for you guys to catch up. This young lady, who was working in Pat Arnold Park, is Amanda. She started about three weeks ago and she’s very good. She’s one of our walkers. There she is with Ty and Naomi in the park. She was brushing them.

​This isn’t a very good picture of Sam. He has retired to the Pam Bollinger Building (H2).

Sam used to be an escape artist. We couldn’t keep him contained. He would jump right over the big park fence. You can see his white face. He’s slowing down. We’ve had him here at least ten years.

BILL: It seems like he came to us yesterday.

​JUANA:There’s Marissa.She has been with us for almost six months. She was the walker in the Shirley Olsen Beemer Park. She was going to get Shuby.

When Shuby returns, Marissa will take Copper and Cadet to the Beemer Park and they know they are next. They were all excited. Before we take dogs to the park, we make sure that they don’t have ringworm. We have some ringworm here, but it’s not nearly as bad it has been in past years. Last year wasn’t too bad and this year we have less. We are very excited for that and we are keeping our fingers crossed that it continues.

BILL: With all of the rain that we have had, it could be worse. Thankfully, it seems like it’s less.

JUANA: We are checking the dogs, before they go to the park. That’s what Marissa is doing here. Once she makes sure that they are clear, she takes them to the park.

​This is Maci with Heather. Heather started last week and Maci is training her on how to work in kennels. We had a busted water hose, so she was fixing the water hose and continuing to work in the kennels.

​We delayed Pinky’s TPLO knee surgery, because Dr. James was planning on going out of town for 10 days. He didn’t want to do it before he left, in case Pinky needed something. Now this Monday, July 24, Ms. Pinky was going to get her surgery. Pinky and Lucy have been living in H1, so they would get used to living indoors and they would be adapted and ready for Pinky to live indoors, while she recuperates. When we first brought them indoors, they were so afraid and they wouldn’t eat. It took them about week to feel comfortable enough to eat. They get so nervous and they are afraid of everything. When Pinky goes to the vet, she is always scared to death. But when she gets back, she knows it’s home and she’s happy to be back with her sister. It’s now two weeks later and Pinky and Lucy have finally gotten used to being indoors and they love it. Dolores Sussman rescued them in Houston and we drove down to Houston to get them. Sadly, their rescuer, Dolores Sussman passed away and she had been a wonderful friend and contributor to Straydog for many years.

There’s Ms. Pinky-girl going to the vet. We have already paid for Pinky’s surgery and we are so thankful that Dr. James has learned how to do TPLO surgeries and he can repair ACL knee tears. He only charges $2,500 and it costs almost $4,000 in Dallas.

​We also took Terry to see Dr. James.

During thunder storms, Terry gets so nervous and we have to bring her indoors. When she is in a crate or behind a fence and there’s lightning or storms or gunshots, she tears on the crates or the fencing to get out and she breaks her teeth. She recently broke one of her canines and it was just dangling from her gum. She barely has any teeth left. She’s getting old and she breaks her teeth. When we first rescued her, she broke out of her kennel during a thunder storm and she dove through the window of the kennel feeding office and she cut herself up and broke some teeth. That’s when we found out that she can’t stand big, loud noises. We had to get this tooth looked at. We didn’t get any pictures of Pinky and Terry, because they both stayed at Morton’s.

Dr. James called me, after he finished dental surgery on Terry. He saw several abscessed teeth and he removed them. She is in good shape now.

​Dr. James also performed Pinky’s surgery and everything went well and he was very happy with the results. She’s now home and recovering. We are trying to limit her exercise and we are walking her on a leash. She’s feeling so well and she’s pulling and trying to run. She feels great, because her leg is fixed. It’s now been two weeks since her surgery and we are keeping her indoors. She has to have her exercise limited for eight weeks in order to recuperate. I think we might keep Pinky and Lucy inside for good now, because they are now used to it. I don’t want to put Pinky outside and risk her blowing out her other knee. All of our dogs would love to be indoors.

BILL: That’s why we are trying to build the Master Care Building, so we can bring more dogs in. Some of the young dogs enjoy being outside but, for the most part, the dogs love it indoors.

​JUANA:There’s Marissa walking a dog to the Beemer Park.

There’s blind Cesar walking in the park. He’s doing well and he’s getting a little chunky. We might have to put him on a diet.

​There are pictures of our crew working in kennels.

​There’s Heather meeting some of the dogs.

​There’s George Jr. He was killing wasps. We’ve had a lot of wasps. After we remove their mud nests, they build them up again.